{"id":44197,"date":"2022-05-05T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T00:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/05\/christchurch-attack-inquiry-to-examine-if-australian-terrorist-was-radicalised-online"},"modified":"2022-05-05T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T00:58:07","slug":"christchurch-attack-inquiry-to-examine-if-australian-terrorist-was-radicalised-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44197","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch attack inquiry to examine if Australian terrorist was radicalised online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim group say coroner\u2019s decision to include gunman\u2019s social media activity in investigation a \u2018landmark moment for the accountability of digital platforms\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The online activities of the Australian white supremacist who opened fire on two New Zealand mosques \u2013 and how much of a role social media and internet platforms played in his radicalisation \u2013 will form part of a coroner\u2019s inquiry into the deaths of 51 Muslim worshipers in the 2019 Christchurch terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>But the presiding coroner, Brigitte Windley, who announced the scope of her inquiry in a decision released on Thursday, has warned of \u201cmonumental hurdles\u201d to exploring the terrorist\u2019s online activities \u2013 including Brenton Tarrant\u2019s attempts to wipe parts of his digital footprint before committing the attacks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/05\/christchurch-attack-inquiry-to-examine-if-australian-terrorist-was-radicalised-online\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim group say coroner\u2019s decision to include gunman\u2019s social media activity in investigation a \u2018landmark moment for the accountability of digital platforms\u2019The online activities of the Australian white supremacist who opened fire on two New Zealand m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,214,213,351,56,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-christchurch","category-christchurch-shooting","category-internet","category-new-zealand","category-social-media"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44198,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44197\/revisions\/44198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}